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Businesses see the technology as a practical way to help create synergy among groups in the same or different companies. Semantic Web technology lets everyone link up the databases so their customers and partners can integrate the information.

A virtual trade conference staged by Unisfair, a company in Menlo Park, Calif., is meant to have a familiar look. But visitors are spared the irritations of traveling and dealing with pesky booth attendants.

Technology investors and entrepreneurs, long obsessed with connecting to teenagers and 20-somethings, are starting a host of new social networking sites aimed at baby boomers and graying computer users.

By far the most important trend in gaming over the last two years has been the pastimeâ€™s explosive growth outside its traditional demographic base of young men. Hardcore young male players are still gamingâ€™s bedrock, but the industryâ€™s growth is com

Now, if an idea that Stuart S. P. Parkin is kicking around in an I.B.M. lab here is on the money, electronic devices could hold 10 to 100 times the data in the same amount of space. That means the iPod that today can hold up to 200 hours of video could st

The social networking site Facebook from afar can look a lot like college, with cliques and the familiar range of personalities. In another imitation of college life, the Facebook campus is wrestling with the contentious issue of speech codes.

Kevin Morris had just negotiated a landmark deal that set Hollywood buzzing, giving the creators of â€œSouth Park,â€ Matt Stone and Trey Parker, a precedent-setting 50 percent stake in the cartoonâ€™s success on the Web and other emerging media.

Over the weekend it introduced a Web portal, www.OncologySTAT.com, that gives doctors free access to the latest articles from 100 of its own pricey medical journals and that plans to sell advertisements against the content.